Boring and mortising machine



No. 6|3,008. Patented Oct. 25, |898. W. J. HUTSDN.

BORING AND MURTISING MACHINE.

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BORING AND MOBTISING MACHINE.

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NITED STATES f PATENT OFFICE.

WASHINGTON J. HUTSON, OF FLAT WOODS, TENNESSEE.

BORING AND MoRr'lslNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 613,008, dated October25, 1898. Application filed April 23, 1898.1 Serial No. 678,618. (Nomodel.)

ro accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I represents in frontelevation a boring and mortising machine according to my invention. Fig.II is a plan or top view of a work-holding chuck belonging to this Fig'.III is a transverse vertical section of the chuck at the line m of Fig.II. Fig. IV is a side view of the machine, partly in verticalsection,whereby the drill-driving gear and supporting-bracket are leftout.

2o Fig. Vis a top view of the forked rest in detail.

This invention relates in general to that class of combined machineswhich are designed for use in small shops instead of a number ofseparate machines to aid the me- 2 5 chanic in performing differentparts of his work, and more particularly to machines adapted for the useof blacksmiths and wagonmakers; and its object is to provide a machinefor drilling metals, for boring holes,

3o spoke-tenons, and dowels, also for slicing and mort-ising wood.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination ofparts forming a boring and mortising machine, herein- `3 5 after morefully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

5 represents the vertical post; 6, the worktable, fitted to be securedat any point thereon; 7, the spindle for carrying drills and other 4otools; 8, the drive-wheel; 9, the driven wheel,

splined to the spindle to revolve the latter; 10, the balance-wheel onthe drive-wheel shaft; 12, a crank fitted for attachmcntto thedrive-wheel 8; 13, the feed-screw to ad- 4 5 Vance the spindle in heavywork; 14, the nut and hand-wheel to operate the screw 13; 15, thefeed-lever, actuatedby the cam 16 on the shaft of the drive-wheel 8 tointermittently feed the hand-wheel 14 tooth by tooth and 5o iitted to bethrown out of engagement by the operator.

17 is a head upon the slemnt\l4 to keep it in the bearing of the frame.

All that has been thus far described is common. j

`Upon the spindle 7, below its lower bearing 18, I fix an adjustablecollar 19, and be tween that and the spindle-head 20 I mount a yoke 21,in which the spindle rotates freely, but by which the spindle may beforcibly raised or lowered.

22 is a hand-'lever pivoted at 23 to a fixture and connected by a pairof rods 24 with the two ends of the yoke 2l.

25 is a balancing or return spring for the lever 22.

26 is a rod connecting with a foot-lever (not shown) for aiding the handin heavy work.

The spindle 7 is connected with its feedscrew 13 by means of acoupling-nut 27, so that these parts may be disengaged to permitthespindle to be operated independently of the feed-screw.

28 is the bed-piece of a work-holding chuck, fitted to rest on thework-table 6 and having a hole to receive the bolt 29, by means of whichit may be bound upon the table.

30 is the frame of the chuck, comprising a rear jaw 3l, a front bar 32,two side bars 33, and a tang-piece 34, which is slotted to pass over thebolt 29.

is ahand-screw threaded through the front bar 32 and provided with aloose shoe 36 to rest against the work in clamping the same against therear jaw 31.

37 is an adjustable jaw having a table portion 38, which is fittedthrough the rear jaw 31, through which two binding-screws 39 pass downupon the table 38, and the slot receiving this table 38 is so long as topermit the table to be turned and set at various angles mounted on thevertical post 5 when that is in its horizontal plane, and the screws 39are For steadying the spokes while the tenons are being thus formed aforked rest 49 (shown in Fig. V) is substituted for the chuck andbed-piece 28 and held in place on the table 6 by the bolt 29. For thispurpose the bedpiece 28 may be raised on the bolt 29 and turned to oneside and the forked rest 49 be inserted under the bed-piece. The slot 50in the rear end of this rest permits it to bel adjusted so-that a spokeof any size may rest in its fork 5l and come central under the hollowauger.

52 is a toothed rack fixed on the machineframe to engage the handle 45.

The operation is as follows: Ahub may be held between the screw-plate 36and the rear jaw 31 of the chuck while holes are bored in it formortising. Then after a number of hubs have been bored amortising-chiselmay be secured in the spindle-head 2O and the Same be verticallyreciprocated by means of the hand-lever 22 and the foot-lever connectedtherewith by the rod 26, the spring 25 aiding in raising the chisel andlevers and the whole chuck being slid back or forward, as required, foreach new chip of the chisel, the bolt 29 being left a little free topermit the chuck to slide. The framework of a wagon may be bored andmortised by holding any piece thereof across the chuck against the rearjaw 3l and sliding the piece across the chuck for each new hole orchisel-cut. The spokes being usually purchased on the market withstraight tenons formed at the hub ends may be sliced to the requirededgewise taper by first adjusting the small table 38, with its jaw 37projecting in front of the jaw 3l, in the form of the tenon required, sothat the slicing-ax when held in the head 21 will pass down by its frontedge,like shears. Then set the block 4l so that its spur 40 will driveinto the end of the spoke-tenon at the same time that the shoulder ofthe tenon abuts against the end 53 of the jaw 37, whereby each spoke maybe quickly placed and held for slicing, so that all the tenons shall beeX-. actly alike from any one setting of the jaw 37. After the spokesare driven into the hubs the hub is to be placed upon the arbor 43 andadjusted between the cones 47 48 to bring the outer ends of the spokesinto proper relation to a hollow auger held in the head 20. Then theforked rest 49 is to be adjusted so as to steady the spoke to betenoned, when the lever 45 is to be pushed back and held by the rack 52while work is being done on the spoke, when pushing back the handle willforce that spoke into the fork 51 ready to be tenoned.

A collar 53 is provided with a set-screw and made adjustable along thespindle to abut against the bearing 18 and stop the descent of thespindle at the point where the spoketenon has been made long enough.

54 54 are stop-rods to be fixed by means of binding-screws in across-bar 55 to press down upon timbers to hold them while being boredor mortised.

The slide-bars 33 of the chuck slant inward a little to form a truebearing for fellies to insure their being bored radially. The spindlemay be rotated by either hand or machine power. Disengaging thefeed-screw 13 permits the spindle to be pressed down by the lever forquick work, also permitting the wood-boring angers to follow their ownleadscrews.

This machine is peculiarly adapted to the wants of the many blacksmithsand wagonmakers scattered over the country as an aid in doing accuratelyand rapidly the work of various kinds above described.

In many shops space is so valuablethat the combining of a number ofmachines in one largely increases the value of this one, and yet thecost of such a combination is very much less than the cost of a numberof machines, each of which would do only a part of the work done by thisone.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I believe to be new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. In boringv and mortising machines, a work-holding chuck'having afront bar, two side bars, a rear jaw and a tang-piece; the

` side bars having inward-slanting upper faces,

and the rear jaw opposed by a hand-screw which is threaded through thefront bar, substantially as described.

2. In boring and mortising machines, a work-holding chuck having ahorizontallyslotted rear jaw; a smaller jaw havinga table fitted intothe said slot; binding-screws for the table, and a spur-block adjustablysecured uponvthe said rear jaw, substantially as described.

3. In a boring and mortising machine, a spindle and a slicing-ax ttedthereto; a chuck fitted for adjustment transversely to the line of thespindle; a table fitted horizontally into the rear jaw of the chuck andhaving ajaw at its front edge tted as a stationary shear-blade to whichthe said slicingax is the mate blade, substantially as described.

4. In a boring and mortising machine, a

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vertical spindle, a work-table and a post; a bodily swung away from thesaid fork to perxo forked spoke-rest tted to the table; a hubmitrotating the hub and spokes.

arbor having a lever-handle and pivoted to a In testimony whereof I axmy signature fixture in liie of the said post, and a toothed in presenceof two witnesses.

rack locate to be engaged by the said handie, substantially asdescribed, whereby a WASHINGTON. J' HUTSON' wheel-hub having spokes init may be rmly Witnesses:

secured with a spoke resting in the said JOHN L. BURNETT,

forked rest, or the hub and spokes may be GEO. A. BROOKS.

